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Freshwater aquatic ecosystems can be considered sentinels of change as they integrate signals from catchment, hydrology and biogeochemistry to provide an indication of how the system fluctuates. The Coorong estuary acts as a sentinel for the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), Australia. Its location at the...
The salt levels in a body of water are known as salinity. Different types of water are classified by their salinity levels, such as freshwater that contains less than 1,000 ppm of salt, compared to saltwater that contains over 10,000 ppm of saltwater. ...
Now, water utility experts and environmental experts are working to ensure the freshwater running down the mountainsides won't go to waste. The West is coming off an early season heat wave that jumpstarted a mass liquification of precipitation that fell as snow in the hig...
They are common all around the globe, and include, for example, marine ponds and salt marshes that are subjected to evaporation, salt or soda lakes, and sea-salt and manmade salterns (Trüper and Galinski, 1986). Life-limiting parameters in salterns are many, for example, variable water ...
In salt marshes, elevation change is much lower than accretion, because of the large fraction of organic matter that can be compacted or that decays in time (Fig. 2c)42. In mangroves, less organic material is accumulated in the soil and mangrove roots better resist the decay, as a result...
For the seawater-freshwater comparison, artificial rainwater (ARW) was produced for some treatments (cf. “Experimental designs”). Recipes for ARW differ in their salt solution (i.e., Palmqvist and Dahlman 2006; Wieder et al. 2010). Moreover, rainwater composition depends on the zone of ...
Coexistence in the salt marshes of the Delta. © Nikos Karanikolas “North of Feres, the river splits into two branches: eastern and western. Another fork on the eastern branch, a few kilometers before its estuary, is where the borders were confirmed in 1926. The border between Greece an...
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